Awkwafina (Crazy Rich Asians) and Laverne Cox (Orange is the New Black) announced the nominations and joked about their height difference, while pronouncing all the names beautifully, being totally gorgeous, and staying enthusiastic about the whole damn thing. We thank them profusely because the ACTUAL nominations were among the worst we've ever seen in our long history of awards-watching and we might have experienced dry-heaving ourselves had we been forced to read them off.

Did the SAG nominating committees only screen 8 movies and 7 tv shows this year?

Screen Actors Guild rules make voting your conscience about who is supporting and lead impossible (the members are required to vote however the actor is campaigned by the studio) unless you are conscientous enough to just not nominate the person if they are cheating... as we are when we vote on such things... but most nominators aren't. So this year we have even worse Category Fraud than usual -- there is barely a Supporting Actress category this year, at all, which is such a shame given all the worthy actual supporting female actors out there.

IF there is a surprise we suspect that McCarthy is the vulnerable one.

Male Actor, Leading Role

Christan Bale, VICE

Bradley Cooper, A STAR IS BORN

Rami Malek, BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

Viggo Mortensen, GREEN BOOK

John David Washington, BLACKKKLANSMAN

Perhaps we have to start considering that Washington has a better shot at Oscar than we've previously thought? On the other hand, SAG often defers to their best picture preferences for acting awards (see also Joseph Fiennes in Shakespeare in Love and many others that didn't transfer to Oscar)

This appears to be the Oscar five with so many other worthy performances out there that just couldn't muster traction. That said if anyone is slightly vulnerable here it's Timothée Chalamet so if he's weaker than he appears (he's the only contender that isn't partially buoyed by traction in other categories for the same film). If he drops at the last second, expect Michael B Jordan from Black Panther or someone from Vice to replace him.

Black Panther is the obvious future winner we think... and it's the "cast" nomination that's the most complete without any egregiously shunned actors, Crazy Rich Asians, A Star is Born and BlacKkKlansman all skipped like half of their key players.

who were their stunt doubles?Stunt Ensemble

ANT-MAN AND THE WASP

AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR

THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS

BLACK PANTHER

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE -FALLOUT

3/5 on our predictions here but very happy about Ant-Man and the Wasp's inclusion. Definitely didn't see Buster Scruggs coming. A bit surprised that A Quiet Place isn't here.

TV AWARDS

Female Actor Drama Series

Julia Garner, OZARK

Laura Linney, OZARK

Elisabeth Moss, THE HANDMAID'S TALE

Sandra Oh, KILLING EVE

Robin Wright, HOUSE OF CARDS

Male Actor Drama Series

Jason Bateman, OZARK

Sterling K Brown, THIS IS US

Joseph Fiennes, THE HANDMAID'S TALE

John Krasinksi, JACK RYAN

Bob Odenkirk, BETTER CALL SAUL

Drama Ensemble

THE AMERICANS

BETTER CALL SAUL

THE HANDMAID'S TALE

OZARK

THIS IS US

Female Actor in Comedy Series

Alex Borstein, MARVELOUS MRS MAISEL

Alison Brie, GLOW

Rachel Brosnaham, MARVELOUS MRS MAISEL

Jane Fonda, GRACE & FRANKIE

Lily Tomlin, GRACE & FRANKIE

SAG's strange insistence on one size fits all categories (no supporting or lead differentiation) makes their honorees so insanely limited. The Marvelous Mrs Maisel and The Kominsky Method and The Handmaid's Tale and Ozarks basically hogged the individual nominations AND the ensemble nominations. It's crazy!

Male Actor in a Comedy Series

Alan Arkin, KOMINSKY METHOD

Michael Douglas, KOMINSKY METHOD

Bill Hader, BARRY

Tony Shalhoub, MARVEOUS MRS

Henry Winkler, BARRY

Comedy Ensemble

ATLANTA

BARRY

GLOW

THE KOMINKSY METHOD

MARVELOUS MRS MAISEL

Female Actor Miniseries/Movie

Amy Adams, SHARP OBJECTS

Patricia Arquette, ESCAPE TO DANNEMORA

Patricia Clarkson, SHARP OBJECTS

Penelope Cruz, ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE

Emma Stone, MANIAC

Male Actor Limited Series, Movie

Antonio Banders, GENIUS: PICASSO

Darren Criss, ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE

Hugh Grant, A VERY ENGLISH SCANDAL

Anthony Hopkins, KING LEAR

Bill Pullman, THE SINNER

Stunt Ensemble

DAREDEVIL

GLOW

JACK RYAN

THE WALKING DEAD

WESTWORLD

Good list for the stunts, donch'a think? Although the absence year after year of Into the Badlands which is like 80% crazy stunt fighting is bizarre.

OVERALL TAKEAWAY 2018. THIS IS A UNIQUELY EMBARRASSING YEAR FOR THE SCREEN ACTORS GUILD; THE STUNT PEOPLE ARE BETTER JUDGES OF THEIR OWN CRAFT THAN THE ACTORS ARE.

That Margot Robbie nomination looks pretty silly without Saoirse Ronan (though I guess no sillier than Claire Foy but no Ryan Gosling, which most people had predicted). Leaving out Regina King is unforgivable.

The Bohemian Rhapsody nomination is rather dumb. It's a biopic about the most charismatic singer of all time - it's all eyes on Freddie!

No Regina King makes her a non-sweeper and also vulnerable to other awards bodies to look elsewhere. Hollywood Foreign Press saw this and BAFTA can act accordingly. I do believe she's good for wins with Critics Choice and Independent Spirits.

From all the movies nominated for cast just one didn't make more than 100 million in the box offices, blackkklansman.

Terrible news for Beale Street, Roma, First Man (which was not even that expected), Widows saw its chances of being pushed almost disappear, i think First Reformed never had the appeal for Sag voters, so I think it still has a big chance with the academy (a la Phantom Thread way)

I'm having flashbacks to 2015 when Rooney and Alicia were nominated for their lead performances in the Supporting category.

I'm also getting pissed at Rachel and Emma. In every interview they stress how great it is to have a film with three female leads, but they're apparently not beneath accepting these Supporting nominations. Same for Timothee. It's gross and it reflects as badly on them as on the studio.

I was so shocked by the movie nominations that I forgot about the TV nominations. They are always awful, but how do you nominate The Americans for Best Ensemble and not nominate Russell or Rhys?

Joseph Fiennes is terrible on The Handmaid's Tale. He is the weakest link in that show. I can't imagine anyone watching his performance and Matthew Rhys's performance and then opting to vote for Fiennes.

The BUSTER SCRUGGS stunt ensemble nomination makes total sense when you realize how much SAG voters are obsessed with Netflix (two actress nominations for OZARK? The bloody Kaminski Method or whatever it is...).

It's an awards season hate crime by SAG to make me root for VICE or MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS by default in a year full of so many great supporting actress performances.

And to be honest, I can see why BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY is there. People love this movie and it's got a big cast even if they're not individually memorable. Remember SAG is a whole lot of out of work people just wishing they could make a movie like that. And they nominated all three majors from THE FAVOURITE and clearly didn't bother with BEALE STREET. It makes total sense.

Glenn: LOL I that hadn't really sunk in yet. The only female supporting performances nominated are from Vice and freaking Mary Queen of Scots. It could have been SUCH a good category if there was any thought put into the voting at all.

How is it that year in and year out we're left with the same 5-6 contenders per acting category? I'm aware that everybody just wants to predict the Oscars these days, but this is getting to be ridiculous.

Are any of you predicting sweeps in these acting categories? I LOVE Regina King and her snub is quite surprising, but at least for viewers it means the Supp Actress doesn't have a mainstay winner yet. I feel like the GG will give Regina supp film and Amy lead mini.

Bruno, there have only ever been two acting winners at the Oscars who got there without a SAG nom. One was Christoph Waltz, whose film was not screened to SAG voters, and the other was Marcia Gay Harden in perhaps the most split supporting actress year in memory. King is not winning the Oscar now.

@ George I think you’re oscar winning predictions aren’t bad, but I agree with whoever said Malek isn’t taking home the Oscar. I think Bale is probably the front runner in best actor unless they don’t give Cooper director and picture then I think they reward Cooper in actor. Cooper can’t take all 3 and Bale is beloved enough to be considered an actor worthy of a 2nd win. I also still think Gaga is going edge out close, because the Oscars have gotten so concerned with tv ratings and a lot of people will just be tuning in to see if she wins.

I think we're looking at our Best Actress and Supporting Actor nominees for the Oscars. There's some wiggle room in the Actor and Supporting Actress nominations, but let's not kid ourselves. This awards season has already become a snoozer.